Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Word count dialog modeless

Hi Michael,

On 11/02/2011 10:42 AM, Michael Meeks wrote:
>         this is a highly requested feature by all and sundry, so you just made
> a lot of people very happy. Speaking of which - it'd be great to people
> know by updating:
>
>         http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5
>
>         with your name, and a short description - so you get proper credit come
> release time :-)

Done.

>         Brilliant; as I say lots of end-user requests for it, and journalists
> love it no doubt. Do you have plans for other things ? One thing that
> would prolly make people even happier would be the ability to dock the
> window - I believe an SfxDockingWindow as a parent may help[1]. Of
> course, to do that it'd be necessary (or useful) to make the dialog
> re-size - which'd chuck you into the unpleasant world of VCL and it's
> lack of layout containers - the fall-back being to manually move and
> re-nail-down the widgets as the dialog re-sizes ;-) [ somewhat hair
> raising ].

I did find this when I was initially looking around:

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=41454

I would be pretty easy to add it to the Page section in the status bar.

e.g.

Page 1/2 (354 words)

Would that be an acceptable UI change?

I think MS Word has something I this, but I no idea if it on by default 
or some soft of option or dock.

BTW, thanks for the mention on the blog. :)

Cheers,
Matt